American-Literature
OVERVIEW Key Terms local color Naturalism Realism TEXTS & CONTEXTS 6 The Late 19th Century TIMELINE 6 ...
THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY BY MARK TWAIN Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) grew up on the shores of the ...
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me f ...
the big flume wasn't finished when he first came to the camp; but any way, he was the curiosest man about always betting on any ...
like the fo'castle of a steamboat, and his teeth would uncover, and shine savage like the furnaces. And a dog might tackle him, ...
more'n any frog might do. You never see a frog so modest and straightforward as he was, for all he was so gifted. And when it co ...
"Now, if you're ready, set him alongside of Dan'l, with his fore- paws just even with Dan'l, and I'll give the word." Then he sa ...
THE STORY OF AN HOUR BY KATE CHOPIN Kate Chopin (1850-1904) may be considered a forerunner of feminist fiction that gained wider ...
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break ...
the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air. Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize ...
eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory. She clasped her sister's waist, and together they descended ...
THE OPEN BOAT BY STEPHEN CRANE Stephen Crane (1871-1900) packed a prolific writing career into a short life. Creating notable wo ...
The Open Boat by Stephen Crane I None of them knew the colour of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the w ...
much smaller. The craft pranced and reared, and plunged like an animal. As each wave came, and she rose for it, she seemed like ...
"Well, we're not there yet, anyhow," said the oiler, in the stern. "Well," said the cook, "perhaps it's not a house of refuge th ...
hooted angrily at them, telling them to be gone. One came, and evidently decided to alight on the top of the captain's head. The ...
"No," said the correspondent slowly, "I didn't see anything." "Look again," said the captain. He pointed. "It's exactly in that ...
Meanwhile the lighthouse had been growing slowly larger. It had now almost assumed colour, and appeared like a little grey shado ...
The distant lighthouse reared high. "The keeper ought to be able to make us out now, if he's looking through a glass," said the ...
"No," replied the cook. "Funny they don't see us!" A broad stretch of lowly coast lay before the eyes of the men. It was of dune ...
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